9 From Countryside to City: Urbanization and the Survival of Small-Town Jewish Communities

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword
4. Sergio DellaPergola The Hebrew University of Jerusalem vii
5. Preface 1. The Life and Work of Steven M. Lowenstein z”l (1945–2020): “From Washington Heights to Skid Row—a Life of Learning and Doing” xi
6. Preface 2. Steven Lowenstein’s Demographic History xviii
7. Acknowledgments xxiv
8. Editors’ Note xxv
9. Introduction 1
10. CHRONOLOGICAL SECTION
11. 1 From the Fall of Napoleon to the Unification of Germany (1815–1871) 7
12. 2 German Jewish Population Changes in Imperial Germany (1871–1918) 40
13. 3 From the “Demographic Crisis” of the 1920s to the Flight to Escape after 1933 75
14. TOPICAL SECTION
15. 4 Natural Growth and Changes in the German Jewish Family 99
16. 5 Changing Age Structure 182
17. 6 Conversion and Intermarriage 214
18. 7 Migration—Overall Trends and Internal Migration 241
19. 8 Immigration and Emigration 333
20. 9 From Countryside to City: Urbanization and the Survival of Small-Town Jewish Communities 390
21. 10 Jewish Residential Concentration in German Cities 450
22. REGIONAL SECTION
23. 11 The Eastern Provinces 521
24. 12 Central and Northwestern Germany—from Sparse Jewish Density to an Urban and Immigrant Center 552
25. 13 Western Germany 584
26. 13 Western Germany 627
27. Conclusions 675
28. Bibliography 683
29. Geographic Names in German and English (Alphabetized in German) 693
30. Geographic Names in German and English (Alphabetized in German) 695
31. MAPS 697
32. Index 725